Facilities
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The plant is located on 84.5 kilometer on CA-9
road that connects Guatemala city and Santo Tomás de Castilla and
Puerto Barrios seaports, in Guatemala nor east (Atlantic ocean). This
road is highly transited during the whole year and is used for
transportation of all kind of goods. The pulp
mill is strategically located on the region where the ¨5,000 hectareas
project¨ was created producing the trees as raw material for the
project. Aproximately the site is more or less at 210 kilometers from
the Atlantic and Pacific ports. The most
used ports for cargo in Guatemala are Santo Tomas de Castilla on the
Atlantic and Puerto Quetzal on the Pacific. The first one moves 1.2
million metric tons annually from 1,200 merchant ships. Puerto Quetzal
moves 4.5 millions metric tons annually by 780 ships. The
train service is also available and is about 150 meters from the plant.
Actually this service is handled by a private company and it is working
on the connection with Mexico network. Water
needs for the project will be taken from the Motagua river, that runs
right to the plant side and has an acceptable stream the whole year. Besides that the plant has the own capacity to generate its electric energy by means of the heat taken from the recovery and captation backpressure steam (18.5 megawatts capacity), it is available the service from the national electric energy company
(Instituto Nacional de Electrificación –INDE-).
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